Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plunderer; a robber.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
pillar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who pills or plunders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
plunderer orthief .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kurbski was yet aliue at my being in Moscouia, & declared vnto me that he spent xvii. daies in ascending the mountaine, & yet could not come to the top thereof, which in their tongue is called Stolp, that is, a piller.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Kurbski was yet aliue at my being in Moscouia, & declared vnto me that he spent xvii. daies in ascending the mountaine, & yet could not come to the top thereof, which in their tongue is called Stolp, that is, a piller.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Neither is it of fmall importnuncc, thai the Church is called the piller and ftrong ftay of truth and the houfe of « T; ™
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Yes, and Obama certainly esclated a "minor zoning dispute" ... in fact a major zoning dispute which is the very piller of the whole conflict. .ie, the palestinians want it for a future state, its considered occupied land and the site of numerous arabic holy sites.
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Je suis d'accord avec vous que la paix permet a Sassou de piller.
Global Voices in English » Congo Brazzaville: Disappointment at Presidential election 2009
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Keamy says, within earshot of Sayid, A black piller of smoke, threw him fifty feet in the air … ripped his guts out.
The Tail Section » Tail Section Now Accepting Fan Submissions! 2008
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I of course had little time to think, and dropped a masterful head-first tackle into the lead piller, right in front of ExerCare.
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The trails and towns were full of memorial statues, usually a piller with a little cage on top holding a Mary or other saint and maybe a candle or some dried flowers in a little vase.
Archive 2007-05-01 C N Heidelberg 2007
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My bed white and gold with curtings of pink and silver brocayd held up a top by a goold Qpid who seems always a smilin angillicly hon me, has I lay with my Ed on my piller hall sarounded with the finest
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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My bed white and gold with curtings of pink and silver brocayd held up a top by a goold Qpid who seems always a smilin angillicly hon me, has I lay with my Ed on my piller hall sarounded with the finest
Burlesques 2006
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